The Portland daily press., 1887-03-11
NAMES soLoNs.
The Ten-Hour Bill Again Considered
In the House.
No Action Probable on the State
Commerce Bill.
The Reason Why the MIX Measure
was Again Changed.
Text of the Bill Providing for Fort
nightly Payments.
The Dependent Pension Bill Passed
to be Engrossed.
No Report Yet on the Portland NUM-
cipaI Court Matter.
The Law for the Adjustment of Inn
prisonment for Debt.
The Boston & Maine Meets with
Defeat.
The Bill Regarding Portland's Deputy
Marshais Passed to be Engrossed.
The Labor Bin Assigned for Discus
sion in the Senate.
Especial to the Press.l

The ten-hour bill was up in the House to.
day and there was slight ''circus" as was
expected. In all but two of the amendments
made by the Senate, the House concurred.
The two on which they non-concurred were
the amendment striking out the section A.
which relates to notices and forfeitures in
cases where employees leave or are discharged
from establishments where they work; and
the amendment striking out sections and 6
and inserting the clause: ''No child under
kfteen years of age shall be employed in any
manufacturing or mechanical establishment.
except when the public day schools in the
city, town or school district in which he re-
SIDES are not in session." Thus two points
were left in which the House and Senate
disagreed. Then Mr.. Moore of Deering pro-
posed an amendment in the first section of
the bill, so that the law might not interfere
with repairs on steamboats,, where it is often
necessary to send small boys into steam
boilers. The bill as at present drawn, he
said, would make it impossible for Portland
macnlnists to work extra time in repairing a
sudden break in a steamers boilers or other
machinery. So Mr.. Moore moved to substi-
tute the word any for the, as shown in this
extract of the first section of the bill:
mo female minor under 16 years of age and no
woman shall be employed in laborng in any man.
utacturing or mechanical establishment In this
State more than ten hours in any one day, except
when 1t Is necessary to make repairs to prevent
the interruption Of the ordinary running of ann
machinery ETC.
Mr.. Looney protested against this amend
ment, but the House adopted it. by vote of
soto A. Then Mr.. Pattangall of Pembroke
tried to have inserted in the bill provision
that the words mo woman" should refer
only to such women as had no relatives de-
pendent on them for support. This PROPOSE
ti0n Kicked up storm Immediately, but the
friends of the Looney bill called and saved
It by defeating Mr.. Pattangall's amendment.
ms gave them courage, and in spite of Mr..
=, MOORE ,b pest etIcrts they reconsldered GO to
ment and then struck out any and put back
the. This being done, the bill was ready for
the Senate and that body's action on the two
amendments where there was difference of
opinion between the two houses.
FortnightIy Payments Of Wages.
In the Senate today the bill providing for
fortnightly payments of wages was dis
cussed, amended somewhat, and passed to
be engrossed. This is the bill as it stands at
the present time:
Sec. Livery manufacturing, mining, stone
cutting, mercantile, horse railroad, telegraph,
telephone, municipal corporation, and every in
fortnighty each and every employe engaged In its
business the wages earned by such employe to
within eight days of the date of said payment;
rroutded, hotceuer, that II at any time of payment
any employe shall be absent from his regular
place of labor he shall be entitled to said pay
hent at any time thereafter on demand.
Sec. 2-Any corporation violating any OF the
provisions of this act shall be punished by fine
not less than ten nor more than TWENTY-FIVE dol
lars on each complaint under which it is convict
ed; provided, complaint for such violation is
made within thirty days from the date thereof.
Sec; 3.When corporation against which a
after being duly served with process, its default
shall be recorded, the allegations in the complaint
taken to be true, and the Judgment rendered ac-
Sec. 7-When Judgment is rendered upon any
such complaint against corporation, the court
payment of the penalty prescribed by law, to-
gether with costs and interest,
Sec. 5-The provisions of this act shall not apply
to municipal officers whose services are paid for
corporations.
Sec. 6-This act shall take effect May 1, 1887.
How Much Milk In a Quart.
why did you change the milk measure?"
was the question that Representative Mobiles
constituents flung at him when he went
home to Lewiston last Saturday. When he
got back to Augusta he found that bill
changing the size Of the milk quart from
passed by both Houses Of the Legislature
and signed by the Governor. Now the wine
quart is smaller than the beer quart, SO much
smaller that in four quarts there is differ
ence of about pint. From the accounts
which Mr.. Noble and other Representatives
gave OF the interview with angry constit-
uentS, it appears that neither those who buy
milk nor those who sell milk are pleased with
the bill So Mr.. Noble put in bill to repeal
tx,I4 I4..r 1nw.v AhA Cd. .4..Nn
books; and that bill was before the House
this forenoon. The friends of the original
bill say they put it through because they
wanted the milk quart just like the other
quarts, which are all wine quarts. But near
ly all the House were for the old quart.
some years ago Franklin county doctor
who owned large milk farm came down to
the Legislature and had the milk quart made
smaller: The howl that went up from all
parts of the State was such that the next
Legislature made all haste to repeal the law.
He was in favor of the old quart. DR.. Grin
| die of Mount Desert, was the champion of
the small quart. The Bar Harbor milkmen
were using the wine quart, and they did the
same in Bangor. So he moved the indefinite
| postponement of the repeating act. But the
| House voted rs to 43 not to indefinitely post
| pone it, and passed it to be engrossed.
Pensions for Widows.
The dependent pension bill has passed to
| be engrossed in both houses. This appropri-
ates $4,000 year for the dependent widows
sisters or children of deceased veterans, ir-
| respective of whether the veterans died from
wounds or hardships in the line of duty or
not. Divided into pensions of "a month.
this appropriation will carry gladness to
over 200 widows and orphans. 1t was in or
| der that the State might afford this that the
| GQ0Q0 for unifOrno for tha militia roc
cut off so unceremoniously in the House yes
terday. Friends of the militia, however, are
working to have this $1,000 put back by the
| Senate.
The State Commerce Bill. :.
The railroad committee do not show dis
position to hurry about reporting on the
| State commerce bill. The friends Of the bill
tried yesterday to pass an order in the
House directing the committee to report
But the order was denied passage. The
friends Of the BILL, however, say they will
get the bill or its subject matter before the
House If possible. They do not like to wait
| the pleasure OF the committee for fear the
| bill may be put aside without consideration
in the last days of the session.
Adjustment of Imprisonment fol
Debt.
The law abolishing Imprisonment for deb,
was reported this afternoon from the judic
iary committee. 1t applies only to action,
founded upon contract. 1t leaves the Law
unchanged up to the issuing of the execution
Executions are to issue only against TIN
debtors property. The creditor may citt
the debtor before disclosure commissions
and have him examined If no fraud i
discovered, the debtor is discharged and car
never be arrested on that debt. II proven I,
be:a fraudulent debtor, the debtor can b.
arrested and proceeded with as under, tn
present law. II the debtor Is discharged, tn
pays them. The theory of the law is that n
man shall be arrested for debt unless hrs
proven to be fraudulent debtor. Under
no honest debtor can ever be arrested. Thus
removes all the chances of abuse. under tn
present law,-such as arresting a ma